Godflicker?

[jimjumper 25]

Does anyone the date that M. Anderson Jenkins (Godflicker) sp? drowned at Elsinore? I was asked and had to guess around 80-81? Anybody know?

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Here's the date and a synopsis of contents of the issue of Parachutist reporting his death.

Issue #17: 03/03/1981
Raible Heads South; Riggers Insurance; Rigger Training; Careless Tacking; Riggers Convention; Details of WSCR Award Given; Skydivers Jump California Bridge; Royal Gorge Jumps Continue; Parachutist Joins Balloon Record; Canopy Soaring; Club Sells Bonds to Finance Improvements; Skyvan Bust Becomes Helicopter Heyday; Upside Down Skydiving Made Easy; Gear Ad Stirs Controversy; Jumpers Welcome on Phillipine Islands; Para-Gear Needs Photos; Mr Douglas DC-3 Sold; Decontrol Ups Avgas Prices; Pioneer Unveils 20 Foot Reserve; Manufacturers Invited to Riggers Convention; Georgia Council Makes Plans for 1981; Another Turboprop DC-3 Built; Ripcord Switch Raises Questions; Advanced Air Sports Now Owned Solely by Handbury; USPA Changes Nationals Rules; Janousek Makes 3000th; M Anderson Jenkins Drowns; New DZ Opens in Florida; Para-Flite Rounds Some Safety Flyers; Colorado Gets Beech; Boenish Announces BASE Award for Fixed Object Jumps

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Here's the date and a synopsis of contents of the issue of Parachutist reporting his death.

Issue #17: 03/03/1981

That would be SNM #17
He drowned Feb 5 1981 in Lake Elsinore.
TV commercial, he had a mal and used his reserve.
He landed in chest deep water. Was seen waving arms and taking off gear.
He stepped into a hole and took an hour to find him.
That's what the article says.

Someone else told me the same thing. He landed in a place he stood on the bottom of the lake with head above water and then started walking out. he apparently found some deeper water and drowned.


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[jimjumper 25]

Thanks Jan! Will forward.

[howardwhite 6]

The 1981 fatality report, published in the July '82 Parachutist, reports (without naming names):
"An ASO with 1289 jumps, filming for PM Magazine, had a problem with his main, did a canopy transfer, and landed in a lake. He was observed standing in the shallow water. As he started to gather in his reserve, he stepped into a seven-foot hole, and the weight of the helmet-mounted camera plus the reserve prevented him from getting his head above water."

HW

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And an infamous, but now dead, resident of the Elsinore Ghetto rechristened Jenkins "The Codflicker"
before the body even reached the undertaker's slab.

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Here's an old letter I got from M. Anderson Jenkins long time ago.  Also attached to letter is article on his drowning from Mike Truffer's Skydiving magazine.